Jesse Stuart Weekend
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October 3 & 4, 2025
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Allan Eckert's Winning of America Series
This Jesse Stuart Foundation best-selling series details accounts of frontiersmen and Native Americans and many dramatic events of the time period. Many years of research went into this popular series that also tells the story of wilderness America itself, its penetration and settlement.
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Jesse Stuart Junior Books
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Latest JSF News
The Hunters of Kentucky great book on pioneer heritage
Although Allan Eckert’s books in the Winning of America Series continue to be our best sellers, we have other excellent books on our pioneer heritage. One of my favorites is “The Hunters of Kentucky: A Narrative History of America’s First Far West, 1750-1797” by Ted Franklin Belue, a senior lecturer in history at Murray State University. Kante-Ke, the Indian name for Kentucky, still evokes images of buffalo, elk, and [...]
JSF best sellers ~ March 1-7
#1 Night Comes to the Cumberlands, Harry M. Caudill #2 The Wilderness War , Allan W. Eckert #3 The Frontiersmen, Allan W. Eckert #4 The Beatinest Boy, Jesse Stuart #5 A Penny’s Worth of Character, Jesse Stuart
JSF best sellers ~ Feb. 22-28
#1 The Frontiersmen, Allan W. Eckert #2 Night Comes to the Cumberlands, Harry M. Caudill #3 Kentucky Boy: The Top First Grader, Louis J. Boyd #4 A Penny’s Worth of Character, Jesse Stuart #5 (tie) The Beatinest Boy, Jesse Stuart #5 (tie) Wilderness Empire, Allan W. Eckert
JSF releases Clement County: Tales of Mystery & Intrigue from Kentucky
The JSF has just released Clement County: Tales of Mystery & Intrigue from Kentucky. Everything from gritty reality to the supernatural rears its head in the new short story collection from Hal Blythe and Charlie Sweet. Following the success of the Clement County Saga, a ten-novel collection penned in collaboration with fellow Eastern Kentucky University professors Mason Smith, Marie Mitchell, and the late Rick Given, Blythe and Sweet revisit [...]
Underground Railroad fascinating part of regional history
Before the Civil War, the Underground Railroad was a network of hundreds of safe houses throughout the North and South that served as hiding places on the road to freedom for tens of thousands of runaway slaves who risked their lives in a long, hazardous journey, often on foot, that frequently stretched more than one thousand miles. It is also the story of perseverance, bravery, and humanity in which [...]